Mendez Lynch v. Mendez Lynch

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• holding that equitable tolling applies to Hague petitions because otherwise “a parent who abducts and conceals children for more than one year will be rewarded for the misconduct by creating eligibility for an affirmative defense not otherwise available”
• finding that the children were not well settled and noting that in a short period of time, they lived in seven different locations
• holding equitable tolling does not apply to petitions filed under the Hague Convention
• holding equitable tolling does not apply to petitions filed under the Hague Convention
• noting that when the respondent, who lived in an abuse shelter, did not provide her address or phone number to petitioner, he filed a petition with the Central Authority to implement Hague Convention proceedings
• noting that parties agreed patria potestas equates to custody rights under Argentinian law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).